The first place I went after West Point was Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. This was a three week course. The first week was mostly the mechanics of something called “parachute landing falls” done over and over and over from a two foot platform. These were interspersed with group …
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Stuck on Ice – 1987
In February of 1987 I was on assignment to the Office of the Secretary of Defense with duty as a manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for their program for Nuclear Detection Technologies. One of my projects was a space shuttle payload to test the effectiveness of some …